saskmazdaman11 said:
Thanks for the help thus far. If I blew like 3 main fuses off the battery while I was trying to figure things out would this effect the amp. I heard there was a safety switch that wears out if you abuse your amp too much. Right now I think it might be the speaker wires, because the amp powers up and looks fine until the deck kicks in. I am just worried that this is something major that if I get a new amp (i still got a month of warranty) that I will just be in the same boat.
Depends on the amps quality. I have seen kenwood amps that never go into protection, they just nuke. I had an Xtant that didn't even go into protection and it didn't get damaged, it just didn't work until I fixed the problem and my JLs will go immediatly into protection, they won't blow fuses.
If you blew a fuse at teh battery for the amplifer while installing, then something was wrong then. Typicly that means the power wire is grounding somewhere. This can smoke the amp if you had the power wire connected to it incorreclty. I have certainly seen it happen.
What is the state of things now?
It sounds like the fuse on the power wire is ok but its the fuses on the amp that keep blowing?
What did you change to get the fuse on the power wire to stop blowing?
I would disconnect the speaker wires from the amp, and then find any speaker just laying around (home audio is fine) connect that the amp temporarily just to be sure it powers up and plays ok. If it does, you know its something in the wiring or the speakers/sub you have connected that is the issue. I have seen this happen sometimes when a speaker self destructs and becomes an almost zero ohm load, essentaily shorting out the speaker wires. So once you make sure the amp is ok, try to use the speaker on another amp and make sure its good.